About the Authors

Azin Nahvijou

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Rajabali Daroudi

Affiliation Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Mamak Tahmasebi

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Farnaz Amouzegar Hashemi

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Mohsen Rezaei Hemami

Affiliation Institute of Health & Wellbeing Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ali Akbari Sari

Affiliation Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Ahmad Barati Marenani

Affiliation Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Kazem Zendehdel

kzendeh@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Cancer Model Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN KZ. Performed the experiments: MRH MT FAH AAS ABM. Analyzed the data: AN RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN RD. Wrote the paper: AN KZ.